https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-for-your-most-ambitious-work/
Read the linked article.
With Codex technology built-in, ChatGPT can now move beyond answering questions to getting real work done across web, mobile, and desktop.
This looks like OpenAI catching up to Anthropic’s Cowork.
It looks like ChatGPT finally has their own form of artifacts, which is quite welcome. I can’t believe it’s taken them two years to copy Anthropic on this.
Can it replace my manager?
So, Claude Cowork for OpenAI? Feels overdue!
I’ve loved using Cowork recently for sourcing decisions. Things where seemingly everyone’s out of stock or questionably reputable, just let Cowork spin for 20 minutes, find the best new and best used options that meet your requirements, probably also suggesting a different item that does the job and is available for cheap. I’ve done it enough that I’m starting to loathe clicking through these sites myself.
How is this different than Codex?
They are replacing ChatGPT with Codex
It has a new name!
Feels like forever in the AI world but Claude Cowork only launched ~5 months ago. So not that overdue.
Anthropic just changed their web interface yesterday to have Chat versus Cowork as well, and every time I look at it, I’m so confused. I’m still so unclear when I’m supposed to use one or the other or the other.
Now the ‘ChatGPT desktop app’ (the Codex app, renamed) also has the split between work and code, and as far as I can tell, all it does is change which plugins are loaded by default to include Office ones when you put it in work mode. Perhaps it also changes the system prompt slightly?
Rebranding + expanding it beyond coding work.
The capabilities were launched months ago. This is just retiring the ChatGPT app and replacing it with Codex for the masses
I wonder why they haven’t simply continued to rebrand Codex as a general-purpose tool. ChatGPT Work is a convoluted name and continues the trend of having separate brands for separate things, what runs counter to OpenAI’s purported goal of unifying every workflow into a single “superapp”.
Worse still: what happens when your workflow involves both coding and general knowledge work? Are you expected to switch apps, or switch settings? To me, it sounds very confusing and inefficient, and not at all what I was expecting.
I sure hope it does!
who cares?
Yes and your new one will be paying much closer attention to you.
I wonder why they haven’t simply continued to rebrand Codex as a general-purpose tool.
They have, if you try to download ChatGPT app, it actually downloads codex now, and the first screen is “Codex is now the ChatGPT App”
because every non-programmer hears “codex” and thinks that it’s for coding only - seems like a large hurdle to adoption. claude has been successful with cowork branding which makes sense.
Codex just started downloading an update and it’s gone. It removed itself.
I guess it’s supposed to be a part of ChatGPT now, but I cannot see any update there yet.
btw I kinda hate this, because ChatGPT was always very slow for me - possibly due to amount of historical threads I have there
Isn’t Microsoft heavily invested? As one should know, Microsoft are experts at confusing and contrived naming with no connection to reality: Windows Home, Windows Home Premium, Windows Professional, Business, Premium, Small Business etc. Now it is Copilot: Copilot, Copilot Plus, Copilot 365, pretty and Copilot Copilot too, I guess. And ofc Microsoft points, the currency for Xbox. And yeah, anything is Xbox too.